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carl669 · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 7

Is there any way to make the embedded player automatically display full screen? (instead of making the user right click on the video, size->full screen)

Admin · Site Admin Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 488

There is a method in ActiveX control (what you call embedded player)
to go to FullScreen mode.
Download the SDK and go to ActiveX control section.

You can't start in Full Screen mode from the very beginning. However, you can do it 1 second from the beginning:

In your OnStart Javascript function on the web page, create a timer for 1 second; in timer function call DisplayFullScreen method.

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Admin · Site Admin Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 488

More on that.

In the next version 5 you will be able to go to FullScreen from the beginning, using the same method of ActiveX control.
You will simply need to call this method from OnStart Javascript function itself, instead of creating a timer which is a must for version 4.

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carl669 · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 7

Thanks. That does work for going fullscreen, but, there's still a problem.

When playback starts, it automatically goes fullscreen, however, if I want to exit fullscreen (ctrl+esc), it reduces the video size to 50%. In the context menu, the 100% option is disabled. However, if I first size it to 200%, then I can go back and size it to 100%.

Any suggestions?

carl669 · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 7

also, I didn't see a DisplayFullScreen method...I'm using ViewFullScreenSize.

Admin · Site Admin Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 488

Carl,

ViewFullScreenSize is the right name.

This performance is the best you can do with current version 4; all these issues will be sorted with next version 5.

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carl669 · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 7

Thanks. Have you heard any issues about using this way in Mozilla? Works perfect in IE 6 and 7, but Mozilla never goes fullscreen.

mitchstein · Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Posts: 72 Location: phila pa

Admin · Site Admin Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 488

Version 5 SDK has sample page that does this.

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spiral77 · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 3

I tried the fullscreen example in 1 html page it work....but when i put the code in a popup window, the fullscreen does not work.

my autostart video also does not work.

currently i can only start the video in my player by clicking the start button. It does not auto start like the samples.

sstepanski · Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 2

I can't seem to get full screen to work. I am using a playlist html from skd but I can't figure out what and where to put ViewFullScreenSize. I tried to take some code from the full screen html and insert it but that isn't doing it.

Admin · Site Admin Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 488

SDK has a sample page:
AutoLoad_MultiBrowser_FullScreenOnStart.htm

that does exactly that.

Admin

sstepanski · Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 2

I tried to use the mentioned html to create a session that will play a playlist in full screen. The html does autoload and play the test.avi in full screen but it doesn't use a play list. I tried inserting the playlist code to the autoload full screen html but I can't get it to work. Any suggestions or examples?

Admin · Site Admin Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 488

Here is the webpage that plays Playlist Fullscreen:

<html>
<head>
<title>Test.avi FullScreen OnStart</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="umediaplayer5.js"></script>
<script language="javascript">

//Global player object
var po;
var bFirstTime = 1;

function Play(player)
{
try
{
var o = document.getElementById(player);

o.UseTCP();
o.UseMediaServer("localhost");
o.UseFilePlaylist("test");

InitPlayer(player);

o.Play();
window.status = "Connecting...";
}
catch (e)
{
var code = "Play(\"" + player + "\")";
setTimeout(code, 1000);
window.status = "Player object wasn't created";
}
}

//Specify which events we want to subscribe to
function InitPlayer(player)
{
var pobj = new PlayerObject(player);
pobj.object = document.getElementById(player);

pobj.eventHandler.OnStart = OnStart;
pobj.eventHandler.OnStop = OnStop;
pobj.eventHandler.OnPause = OnPause;
pobj.eventHandler.OnResize = OnResize;
pobj.initPlayer();
}

function OnLoad()
{
Play("player");
}

// Only for Mozilla browsers
function OnInstall()
{
alert("Installation succeeded, the web page will now reload.");
window.location.reload();
}

function OnStart()
{
var o = document.getElementById("player");
window.status = "Playing";

if(bFirstTime == 1)
{
o.ViewFullScreenSize();
bFirstTime = 0;
}
}

function OnStop(toBeContinued)
{
window.status = "Stopped";
if(!toBeContinued)
{
var o = document.getElementById("player");
o.width = 320;
o.height = 240;
}
else
bFirstTime = 1;
}

function OnPause(state)
{
if (state == 0)
window.status = "Paused";
else if (state == 1)
window.status = "Buffering...";
else if (state == 2)
window.status = "Seeking...";
}

function OnResize(width, height)
{

}
</script>
</head>

<body bgcolor="Gainsboro" onload="OnLoad()">
<script language="javascript">

// Create player with width=320, height=240, and id="player".
po = new PlayerObject("player");
po.createPlayer(320, 240);

</script>
</body>

</html>